Toy balloon.



J. PASTERNAK.

TOY BALLOON.

APPLICATION man NOV.22. ma.

1 300,640, Ptented Apr. 15,1919.

INVENTOR ATTORNEY IJOY BALLOON.

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Application filed November 22, 1918. Serial No. 263,659.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN PASTERNAK, a citizenof the United States of America, residing at New York city, county andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inToy Balloons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to improvements in toy balloons, the object beingto provide a toy of this nature consisting of a plurality of inflatablebags or sacks, one within the other, the inner sack or bag being thelarger, suitable means for permitting inflation of the bags or sacksbeing employed. One of the objects of my invention is to provide aballoon or a combination of sacks or bags arranged so that the outersack may have applied to its surface a legend or'the like and the innersack a diiferentiating legend or the like, suitable means being employedto inflate the inner bag and thereby expand the outer bag until itbursts, whereby the legend on the outer bag will disappear and thelegend on the inner bag will come into view. For example, the articlecould be used for New Years celebration, in which event the outer bagwould have applied thereto the designation of the ending year (1918, forinstance) and the inner bag the incoming year (which in this eventwould. be 1919). Other differentiating designations or illustrationscould be of course employed.

I will now describe in detail the arrangement by means of-which Iaccomplish the above results, the accompanying drawing illustrating anembodiment of my invention, wherein v Figure 1 illustrates a pluralityof inflatable bags or sacks, in deflated condition, one within theother, the outer bag being in section, and

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary sectional view illustrating the outer bag asexpanded by the partly inflated inner bag.

To carry out my invention I provide a plurality of sacks or bags 3 and4, connected or secured, at the neck portions 5 and 6 thereof, to a tubeor mouth piece 7 containing a valve 8. As this form of mouth ieoe iswell known, the valve therefor has een illustrated in dotted lines. Asis evident from an inspection of Fig. 1, the inner sack or bag 4 islarger than the outer sack or bag 3; hence said outer bag may beexpanded and burst before the inner bag or sack is inflated to its fullextent. It will be also evident that the outer bag is expanded byinflating the inner bag and not by air which is forced directly therein.As said inner bag does not communicate with the air-passage of the mouthpiece, it cannot be expanded. excepting by inflating the inner bag.

When used for New Year celebration, the outer bag may contain (forinstance) the numeral 1918 and the inner bag 1919. The numeral 1918 willremain in now until the outer bag is expanded until it bursts, afterwhich the inner bag may be inflated to its full extent, revealing thenumeral 1919. This action would, and is intended to indicate, thepassing away of 1918 and the entrance of 1919. These numerals areselected for illustration only, as any other numerals, such as 1920,1921 etc., could be used. If desirable other differentiatingdesignations, characters, or illustrations could be used, such as forinstance as the picture of a political oflicer about to leave oflice andthe picture of the newly elected candidate.

To insure the burstin of the outer frangible bag or sack by theinflation of the inner bag or sack, the wall of said outer sack is madeconsiderably thinner than the inner sack. This arrangement precludes thebursting of the inner sack before the outer or frangible sack is broken.

Having now described my invention, what I claim is 1. The combination ofa plurality of expansible bags or sacks one within the other, the innerbag or sack being adapted for greater expansion than the outer sack, theouter bag or sack being frangible.

2. The combination of a plurality of expansible bags or sacks one withinthe other, the wall or body of the outer sack being frangible andthinner than the wall of the inner sack.

3. The combination of an ex ansible frangible bag or sack, and in atablemeans within said bag or sack arranged to burst same when inflated.

4:. An article of manufacture consisting of a frangible container havingapplied to the outer surface thereof, a suitable inscrip- Signed at NewYork city, N. Y., this 21 tion ori'illiistratlotnl; and 0""Sebondregftivellly dey of November, 1918. stron er 'e pans'i e o(' nta'inerwit'n' t e 1 conta ner first named having applied to its JOHN PASTERNAK' 6outer surface an inscription .or illustration, Wi tnesses:

the inner container beingedeptedto be ex: MAURICE BLOCK, pended to burstthe outer container. EDWARD A. JARVIS.

